Andre Didn’t Know Where The Governor “Was At”
An unfortunate byproduct of the national news story that developed from S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford’s “disappearance” over the weekend is that various Palmetto State politicos were offered the opportunity to take to the national stage and lend their perspective on the story.
Take S.C. Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer, for example, who has now twice informed a national television audience that he didn’t know where the governor “was at.”
Way to go, S.C. public schools …
Comments
By Darth on June 23rd, 2009 at 10:17 am
Wil, the wee bit that is more telling is that the Guv’s gone and the press hadn’t paid attention to the fact and is even more pissed that they didn’t get an engraved invitation.
Fair and unblemished and what Pravda says is impartial and non partisan.
The Ayatollah in Tehran are fairer and more honest…
By Phil on June 23rd, 2009 at 10:42 am
The real question has not been asked. Does Andre know where Andre is? Highly doubtful. But, this is South Carolina.
By Not Sayin', Just Sayin' on June 23rd, 2009 at 11:08 am
I am in no way a defender of our public schools, but it I think it is unfair to blame them for Andre’s poor grammar because he’s a complete idiot who no teacher could help.
By SCCON on June 23rd, 2009 at 12:45 pm
You all are being mean. Haven’t you ever heard of a “colloquialism”? Andre’s just showing that he’s from ’round here.
But seriously, grammar is nothing more than what most people agree is the “proper” way to arrange words. And there is nothing ungrammatical about ending a sentence with a preposition. We do that in ordinary conversation all the time. So unless you’ve never, ever finished a sentence with the word “of”, my message to you is “lay off”.
By fitsnews on June 23rd, 2009 at 12:52 pm
SCCON-
The back of our founding editor’s balls may you partake of …
-FITS
By Pat Hendrix on June 23rd, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Wow. There’s the reference to balls again in relation to Will Folks. I can not be a coincidence.
Though I did catch the “was at” and reflexively cringed – thanks mom – SCCON is technically correct. You can end a sentence with a preposition. Now ending every other sentence with an ellipsis, well, that’s just a crutch.
By SCCON on June 23rd, 2009 at 1:33 pm
So much for my attempt to bring some, er, taste to an otherwise informative site.
By Shawn on June 23rd, 2009 at 1:42 pm
As a transplant to the South, I know they are very free-wheeling with the English language. My husband was born and raised in Atlanta, went to Georgia State but has the grammar of a rapper. (He’s a middle aged white guy). I tell him all the time, It’s all fine and folksy if he’s doing business in the South but not to be surprised if non-Southerners don’t take him seriously.
I’ve learned that Southerners wear their lousy diction like a badge of rebel honor. They just don’t get that the joke’s on them.
Call it colloquialism if it makes you feel cute and as if you’re holding out against the North, but don’t be offended if non-Southerners think you’re uneducated.
By baked on June 23rd, 2009 at 2:14 pm
bauer acts like he wants to be president of the 8th grade class.
what a douchebag.
By LittleA on June 23rd, 2009 at 3:39 pm
I hate it when condescending people point to the south as a land of uneducated morons with poor diction and think that the north is a fairy tale land of educated sophistication in which only the finest Queen’s English is spoken. Half my family lives in New York, New Jersey or Rhode Island. Bad grammar and lousy diction are universal afflictions.
By trudee on June 23rd, 2009 at 4:02 pm
Wasn’t it in NY that a person was TRAMPLED TO DEATH during a Wal-Mart Christmas sale?
What class!
By CNSYD on June 23rd, 2009 at 5:35 pm
According to the folklore, Winston Churchill was upset with an editor who had rearranged a sentence of his in order to avoid its ending in a preposition. He sent the following note, “This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put.”
By madcock on June 23rd, 2009 at 5:49 pm
This is an old SC GOP trick. Lee Atwater taught Exeter and Yale educated George H.W. Bush to drop his “g’s” at the end of words, as in “I’m goin’ to paint Mike Dukakis as pinko because he speaks well.”
Funny to hear Atwater’s acolytes turn on each other about a version of it.
Wonder if Atwater’s has internet access in hell so he can read about it?
By truth on June 23rd, 2009 at 6:15 pm
What ever happened to the $85,000?
By David on June 23rd, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Andre, Hugh Leatherman, and Jake Knotts…the Three RHINOS!!!!
By CNSYD on June 23rd, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Apparently some of youse guys have never been to Jersey or Brooklyn. You think they speak the Queen’s English?
By roofus on June 23rd, 2009 at 9:34 pm
When Obama goes for a “date night” on Broadway, it cost the taxpayer hundreds of thousands of dollars.
When Obama wanted a propaganda shot of Air Force One over Lady Liberty, it cost the taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.
What the Governor does on the weekend in the mountains is not my business, as long as I’m not stuck paying for it.
By The Peninsula on June 23rd, 2009 at 9:50 pm
Leaving Andre in charge would be like leaving a two-year-old at the steering wheel. Thank goodness Gov. Sanford kept him in the dark…
By CNSYD on June 23rd, 2009 at 11:24 pm
roofus, I don’t care who is the President is, any trip costs big bucks. You think all those trips back and forth to Crawford, TX were free?
By roofus on June 23rd, 2009 at 11:44 pm
CNSYD,
Crawford, Texas, is a lot easier and less costly to secure than Broadway or Chicago, for that matter.
Incidentally, what’s the carbon footprint for a presidential jaunt to Hawaii?
By CNSYD on June 24th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
roofus, if you have the opportunity look at the National Geographic specials on Air Force One. It is mind numbing the costs expended when the President travels. It would worry me if I was President and knew I was spending taxpayer money on personal trips. Candidates spend years and multi-millions trying to get to the White House and then don’t want to stay there when they get there.
By PandaChris on June 24th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Am I the only one who thinks that Sanford supporters who trashed Catherine Ceips and Wallace Scarborough owe them apologies?
Some people LOVED going after Catherine on this…,many of them were ket Sanford loyalists in Beaufort County.
How much you wanna bet that same crew will be out in full force defending Sanford?
By the way, are others able to access FITSNews reports on the Sanford story? They seem to have disappeared.
By Darth on August 13th, 2009 at 11:28 am
So tell me Wil, do you know where your Lt Gov is today?
By Howard Bond on September 17th, 2009 at 10:49 am
I am a fan of the reform movement and Gov Sanford. But, the cheap shots aimed towards Lt Gov Bauer shows how classless some people are. The cream always rises to the top is what my Grandfather used to always say.
By Howard Bond on September 17th, 2009 at 11:08 am
BOOYA! @ all you spineless cowards who never post under your real name. You make me want to puke.